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JOHN COSTANZA

Active: 1969–2025

2

AS WRITER

53

AS ARTIST

354

KEY ISSUES

461

SERIES

John Costanza is an American comic book artist and letterer. He has worked for both DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He was the letterer during Alan Moore's acclaimed run on Swamp Thing. The bulk of Costanza's art assignments have been for anthropomorphic animal comics and children-oriented material.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

NOTABLE WORKS: KEY ISSUES

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Giant-Size X-Men #1 cover

Giant-Size X-Men

#1

First appearances of Storm, Colossus, and Nightcrawler. Earliest catalogued appearances of Magik, Thunderbird (John Proudstar), and Krakoa.

Batman #436 cover

Batman

#436

First appearance of Tim Drake, the third Robin. Earliest catalogued appearance of Jack Drake.

The Amazing Spider-Man #129 cover

The Amazing Spider-Man

#129

First appearance of Punisher.

Green Lantern #87 cover

Green Lantern

#87

Earliest catalogued appearance of John Stewart.

Batman: Son of the Demon #1 cover

Batman: Son of the Demon

#1

Earliest catalogued appearance of Damian Wayne.

Adventures of Superman #500 cover

Adventures of Superman

#500

Earliest catalogued appearance of Superboy (Kon-El).

FREQUENT COLLABORATORS · TOP 8

Issues where both are credited as writer or artist

Mike DeCarlo 27 issues togetherDavid Álvarez 14 issues togetherFrank Strom 11 issues togetherEarl Kress 9 issues togetherScott McRae 9 issues togetherSholly Fisch 8 issues togetherHoracio Ottolini 7 issues togetherLeo Batic 7 issues together

CHARACTERS · TOP 10

Appearing most often in their credited issues

SupermanBatmanDick GraysonWonder WomanLois LaneAlfred PennyworthSwamp ThingConanJames GordonJimmy Olsen

Credits

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2 ISSUES

House of Secrets #85 cover
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House of Secrets

#85

Looney Tunes #66 cover
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Looney Tunes

#66